Posts in: Unfair Business Practices

A recent case (Bans Pasta LLC v. Mirko Franchising LLC) began when franchisees claimed they were misled and induced into buying a franchise after being shown inaccurate financial documents which the franchisors claimed was a depiction of what they …

By its nature, business law is always playing catch-up to business reality. Few areas of law reflect the gap between every day events and court opinions as the area of social media. Social media gives everyone the power of the …

An interesting question regarding LinkedIn contact information arose recently in a High Court decision out of England. The matter involved whether email addresses stored in LinkedIn groups formed for the company’s benefit, which were maintained by employees, were the sole …

Unfair business practices claims, such as breach of fiduciary duty, business conspiracies and tortious interference, have not usually been asserted by law firms against their prior attorneys or the law firms where their prior attorneys subsequently go to work. Among …

The attorney-client privilege protects the privacy of communications between an attorney and his client. Most courts agree that the attorney-client privilege between a lawyer and a client that is a corporation extends to more than just the owners of the …

When two companies combine their efforts to accomplish a task, there can be confusion purposefully or incidentally created, as to which employees are acting on behalf of which company. And that confusion can lead to legal problems.

In cases involving unfair business practices, money damages may not be the best, or only, remedy to pursue. In situations where an ex-employee is using and disseminating company trade secrets, a more important strategy may be to ask the court …

A business conspiracy claim may allow a plaintiff to rope in additional defendants who may not have done every unlawful act themselves, but due to that defendant conspiring with others, he may be held accountable for actions taken by the …

Virginia Code § 13.1-672.1(B)(1) contains a written demand requirement before a shareholder is able to file a derivative action on behalf of a corporation. Under Virginia law, a shareholder has no standing to maintain a derivative suit unless he first …